oecd.economy.trade
Retrieve Balance of Payments (BoP) data for any OECD member country. Returns current account balance, goods trade balance, services trade balance, and financial account indicators in USD millions. Based on IMF BPM6 standards and reported to the OECD. Covers 38 OECD countries at quarterly and annu...
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What oecd.economy.trade does on Apibase
AI agents call oecd.economy.trade to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
country | string | Yes | ISO 3-letter OECD country code (e.g. USA, GBR, DEU, FRA, JPN, CAN, AUS, KOR, ITA, ESP). See OECD reference area codes for the full list of 38 member countries. |
end_period | string | — | End period for Balance of Payments data (e.g. "2023"). Defaults to latest available. |
max_series | integer | — | Maximum number of time series to return (1–100, default 20). Each series is a unique combination of dimensions such as sector, measure, or adjustment type. |
start_period | string | — | Start period for Balance of Payments data (e.g. "2018" for annual, "2023-Q1" for quarterly). Defaults to 5 years prior. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why oecd.economy.trade is rated Low
Tool retrieves and queries published OECD economic data with no side effects or modifications.
From the tool's definition Retrieve Balance of Payments data, returns current account balance, goods trade balance
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The rule that runs oecd.economy.trade safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For oecd.economy.trade, this is the rule to start with:
oecd.economy.trade is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every oecd.economy.trade call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about oecd.economy.trade
Retrieve Balance of Payments (BoP) data for any OECD member country. Returns current account balance, goods trade balance, services trade balance, and financial account indicators in USD millions. Based on IMF BPM6 standards and reported to the OECD. Covers 38 OECD countries at quarterly and annual frequency with typical lags of 3–6 months. Useful for macroeconomic analysis, currency risk assessment, and understanding a country's external position with the rest of the world. Current account surplus = country exports more than it imports; deficit = imports exceed exports. Source: OECD SDMX API, CC BY 4.0, no auth required, unlimited. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
oecd.economy.trade accepts 4 parameters: country, end_period, max_series, start_period. Required: country. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for oecd.economy.trade: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
oecd.economy.trade is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the oecd.economy.trade rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for oecd.economy.trade. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
oecd.economy.trade is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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